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These are not your mother’s piano lessons
Business FeatureBy Carol Purcell Sun contributor What if I told you there is a method that teaches you to play great music of many styles — jazz, pop, ballads, classical and blues —from your first lesson? What if I told you this broad-based music education method would teach you accompaniment skills, composition, improvisation, the ability to […]
Dunegrass Festival ’06 tops the charts
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Lake Street Studios bring back performance with Arts Collage
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Getting to know Cedar
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Cedar’s newest restaurant offers fresh, local dining
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Friends of Library hold popular annual book sale
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Local craftsman Paul Czamanske preserves woodworking traditions
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Painter Carol Spaulding opens at Lake Street Studios
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Developing Glen Lake’s film people
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Civil War units highlight Port Oneida Fair
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